Physical exercise and rheumatoid arthritis: Possibilities of intervention of a training protocol

• Autor(a) principal: Negrão, Ângelo Solano
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Oliveira, Igor Mateus Fernandes de, Vieira, Douglas Alencar, Lima, Anderson Bentes de, Coelho, Higson Rodrigues
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/18481
• topic: Exercício Físico; Artrite Reumatoide; Qualidade de vida.; Ejercicio físico; Artritis reumatoide; Calidad de vida.; Physical Exercise; Rheumatoid arthritis; Quality of life.

The study examines the effects of an exercise protocol in a woman with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Methodologically, it is a quantitative and qualitative case study, divided into three stages: 1-physical assessment of functional capacity, application of questionnaires to investigate the state of the disease, quality of life and depression; 2-intervention through the elaboration of a training protocol; 3-reassessment of tests to obtain comparative results. The results obtained demonstrate a significant evolution in the aspects of physical and psychological assessment, whereas in the aspect of functional capacity the result was unsatisfactory. In the physical evaluation, the subject presented satisfactory results in terms of lean mass (33.40±0.60, =%=2.5%), fat mass (9.35±0.93, ∆%=13.0%), fat percentage (21.87±2.03, ∆ %=12.3%), BMI (18.87±0.37, ∆%=2.8%). In the analysis of quality of life, we obtained the results in each domain: in the DF (2.64±0.70, ∆%=31.8%), in the DPS (2.80±0.28, ∆%=13.3%), DS (3.31±0.02, ∆%=0.9%) and in the DA (3.17±0.10, ∆%=4.8%). Regarding the functional capacity, they were FC (2.68±0.08, ∆%4.7%), which shows little evolution in quantitative terms, however, they become significant due to the improvement in their daily activities. Finally, in the depression test, there was timid progress (22.50±2.10, ∆%=12.5%). It is concluded that physical exercise is of great importance with regard to the studied person's rheumatoid arthritis, which allows the application of physical exercise as a non-pharmacological means in the treatment of RA for the investigated individual proved to be a viable alternative that invigorates the indexes and the daily life of the studied one.